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Is there a mechanism behind savantism shared by all savant cases (both congenital and acquired)?
Kim Peek (the real-life inspiration for Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man) had a spectacular case of savantism. He also had disabilities, like missing his corpus callosum and anterior commissure, leaving ...
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What would happen if we cut the corpus callosum?
How would a two-halved brain work? If it would, could we still control things like motion, and would hearing, vision, and other senses still function?
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